Some love comes like the wind off the sea, while others grow slowly from the seeds of friendship and kindness.” – Carline

The difference between you and me is that I always forgive you.

A true friendship is one where you share both Philosophies and Vulnerabilities”.

When we become acquainted with any person on a human level, even a great enemy, we begin to see that no person is really so different from ourselves.

My friends are everything without me but I am nothing without my friends.

If they mean that it gives you a headache, they aren’t wrong.

In the midst of aches in the joints, anxiety over the payment of bills, concern for the safety of those you love, envy of the rich, fear of robbers, dog-weariness at the end of a...

Authentic community is the sweet aroma of the gifts offered to our Lord on the day of His birth.

That sounds dangerous,’said Jean.’For anyone else, maybe.For Gentlemen Bastards,we,it;s just what we do.’ ‘We?’ ‘We.

Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never.

Your enemies can be your allies and your allies can be your enemies at times.

See” Kayla links her arm through mine, leaving Blake to jostle and race the other guys. “I tell them I can handle my own stuff, but it’s like a mark of pride or something. I’m...

True regret is knowing you missed your only opportunity to be simply a good friend to someone that was exactly like you.

Certo, io voglio che tutti i tuoi sogni si avverino e voglio vederti sorridere, ma solo nella misura in cui io sorrido e solo in proporzione a quanti dei miei sogni si realizzeranno.” Questo è...

You don’t have to apologize for loving someone or wanting a life that no longer fits your blueprint. The beginning phase of reclaiming your life always starts with apologizing to yourself, then apologizing to others...

It is a joy to share good advice. It takes a grateful ear to listen wisely. It’s always up for us to take the right action and fulfilling path that can truly serve for what...

Two a.m.’ He swallowed, then said, “You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they’re asleep or it’s cold or you need...

When we were that young we invented the world, no one could tell us a thing.

But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn’t ‘a nice man’, and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers’ work and origins unless they were his friends, he was a...

…we can say we love each other if my life is better because you’re in it and your life is better because I’m in it.

My retelling of events to Zoe is what grounds them, shapes them, makes them real. If I can’t tell Zoe about kissing Danny Spinelli, it didn’t happen.

Friendship is that form of altruism that takes its strides faster than anything else does.

In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an encumbrance. I had found too, a comradeship inherent in the...

An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

Make a new friend by picking up a book and getting to know it!

You break me the hardest, make me the strongest, and keep me the softest.

It’s and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.

That’s what friends are for. The people who aren’t in your life ’cause they’re related, or hot for you. They just love you.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.

And just what would I gain if I go back to that place? I’ll stop at a tree when I like it and I’ll fly when I like it.How I live and where I live...

I want to learn how to speak to anyone at any time and make us both feel a little bit better, lighter, richer, with no commitments of ever meeting again. I want to learn how...

It was nice. Even in high school, I’d mostly had makeshift friends forged by the shared status of outcast. It was rare for me to discuss things so easily to someone outside of my family,...

Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with...

The major mistake people pursue in decision making is to surround themselves with negatively minded people. People who are going nowhere will never take you anywhere; people who are going everywhere can take you somewhere.

I grabbed his hand. He jumped and stared at the connection like something both magical and dangerous had happened.”Do you wanna be friends?” I asked.

You weren’t there.

Echoes can’t read minds. But when you get to know someone very well, you can read their expressions. Pay attention. It will happen to you too.

Because school, no matter how insignificant and annoying it may seem as we get older and can’t wait to get away, sets us on our life’s path. It’s plants ideas for us to thrive upon,...

When the love is gone, tears means nothing.

Oompow,” which I would translate for you but it’s devastatingly embarrassing.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not...

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

If you mess with her head, I’ll personally hunt you down, but otherwise, good luck. If you can get her to talk, you’re a freaking miracle worker. Hell, if you can get her to actually...

In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the Ingersoll’s, and went over to Charleston to hear him lecture. His subject was ‘Some Mistakes...

You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!

There is no friendship between kings.

…Sleepovers and dance parties and those talks we would have until three in the morning that would make us feel lousy the next day because we’d slept like hell but also feel good because the...

I didn’t want to upset my loved ones, but I couldn’t carry this alone.

Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.